J Chris Campbell

My good friend Mike Gowan has put his skills to the challenge of remixing the Radiohead song nude. Are you a musical mixing madman? Well give it a shot, download the stems from itunes and upload your completed songs to www.radioheadremix.com.
Just a plane ole music fan? Well go check out all the mixes at www.radioheadremix.com there are already 700 entries as of April 7! Listen to the all and vote on your favorite. Ok, you don’t have to listen to them all. Just listen to my buddy Mike’s and vote for him.

If you’ve got time (07min & 33sec), then for sure check out Adventure Time! If you’ve only got a few seconds then check this out and try not wanting to watch his cartoon. Rhombus! Forgive me if this is old youtubing to you, I’m only a year behind on this one. 

If you dig it hardcore then you can get a limited edition t-shirt from a series of 12 t-shirts. They’re on number 9 as of April 5.

Last year I ran across this site that does graphical representations of any website. The graphing takes place live via a java application. You’ll see an explosion of dots that continues to grow while you watch with each dot representing a certain thing:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

There’s a Flickr tag if you’d liked to see more. But I’d suggest going there and typing in one of your favorite websites. I went ahead and did your most favorites below. You can even compare them from 05/07 & 02/08.

jchriscampbell.com

wideawakepress.com

as a nice contrast here is adhousebooks.com

As an interesting side note, the program was created by artist Fernando Luis Lara who is a part of the internet based art projects. His is 365 special days, where he paints a painting by request for commision for people who want a special day remembered. Everyday is for sale and he is only doing the day once. www.365specialdays.com

For more of this kind of thing be sure to check out these sites:

1000 Paintings
Wants for sale
Needs for sale
Salathe & White
I’d lump the million dollar homepage in with this whole set even though it’s not really art, but the idea is the same.

I should have broken this up into another post, but that would have required me doing more research and eventually coming up with some silly idea where I draw 500 robots or something.

Looking for these guys?

Many years ago my friend gave me a box set of the first season to The Office. A British television show that he swore was amazingly awesome. So we watched an episode. It was painful. We watched more episodes and they were equally if not more painful. It was funny stuff, but painfully funny stuff. For some odd reason I couldn’t get into it.
When the American version came on I was front and center. I loved it and came back week after week for more. It didn’t feel quite as real as the British version and maybe that’s what made it more accessible for me. It was funny but not in a painful way or maybe not as often as it’s father was.
But I’m wondering if now that there are no new episodes of The Office until April 10th if I shouldn’t call my friend up and tell him I’m ready for the original now.

I did this Jim Halpert illustration for Pat Lewis’ Sketch the Office

Did you know I love robots? I wouldn’t say I’m totally obsesed by robots, but I like them a lot. So it isn’t a surprise how much I like We The Robots. It’s a new web comic by Chris Harding and it’s updated 3 times a week so you don’t get overloaded with new comics each week.

Basically it’s the real world reflected in robot form. But he does some robot specific jokes now and then. I highly recommend you checking it out. You can start at the begining, but I recomend starting here and read a few till you get hooked and then go back and read the intro.

My good pal Mike Gowan decided to make a christmas game last night.

The instructions are simple.  Feed the santas cookies and snowball the spoiled brats. My favorite instruction is the very last line.

According to their website they say if you can draw it they can make it. FAO Schwarz now offers custom stuffed animals based on your childs drawing. One of a kind stuffed animal and it’ll only cost you two hundred and fourty nine dollarinos.

While your there why not pick up a few of Brian Froud’s Goblins. I still wish I had a copy of his The World of the Dark Crystal book.

While we’re talking about Mr. Froud and the Dark Crystal, did you know they are making a sequal? The Power of the Dark Crystal! I know!! And Mr. Froud is all over it along with Genndy Tartakovsky!

Edit: Like a big dum dum I forgot to mention the new Dark Crystal graphic novel series by Tokyopop. It’s Legend’s of The Dark Crystal and it’s a prequel to the original Dark Crystal movie.

I’ve been looking forward to this show for a long time now. I forgot about it starting on August 20th and totally didn’t vio-it. But there are a few vids up on youtube. Including the performance by the AquaBats.

These have been up there a while. Check out Biz’s Beat of the Day and party in my tummy. I was looking for the remix of Biz’s Beat of the Day but it looks like they’ve taken it down. It was zary goot.

It’s like if Sesame Street was directed by Sid and Marty Croft on the set of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. You get the idea.

They Might Be Giants have been one of my favorite bands for a very long time. They are spectacular live and I’m thankful I’ve been able to see them perform several times. But I’ve missed them in recent years due to the travel time and mostly because I caught the old man doesn’t want to leave hometown for rock show illness. They always play 2 hours away from here. In every direction. That dang The Orange Peel in Ashville has been bringing them around for years.

So when my friend told me they were coming to a local club I knew he had made a mistake. And sure enough, there on the TMBG homepage October 30 – Greenville, North Carolina - The Handlebar. But there could not be a Handlebar in Greenville NC also, could there be? After checking our Handlebar’s website you can see that it’s just a silly typo, and they are coming to Greenville SC! Now I have no excuse not to go see them, and to get all my hometown buddies to join me.

Sure they’ll be playing mostly songs from the new album The Else, which is an amazing album if you include the songs on the extra CD. The extra cd is loaded with 23 tracks from their ultra cool podcast (since 2005). By itself it’s one of my least favorite albums. But if they play with just a dab of the energy I’ve experienced at previous shows then they will totally change my mind. Hopefully it’ll be an amazing show and I’ll never have to leave town again to see giants.

My good buddy SteepleJack pointed me towards this guy’s ultra cool rocket sculptures. How great would those things look sitting on your desk?

Jack Brewer is the artist and he even does custom versions with your name/company on it. He’s a model maker for film and commercials and has worked on a bunch of movies including Nightmare Before Christmas, Men in Black & James and the Giant Peach. If I had known he was going to be at Comic-Con I’d for sure had put him on my 10 items list. I’ll just have to drool all over my friends.

Starting thursday you can add a little POW to your mail with Marvel postage stamps! Each 41-cent iconic square is ready to peal and stick and really snazes up that letter to the electric company.

Here is what the United States Postal Service has to say about it.

Marvel Super Heroes
With these 20 colorful stamps, the U.S. Postal Service salutes stars from the world of Marvel Comics. For decades, Super Heroes have been synonymous with the comic book medium. Their adventures have provided an escape from every day life and demonstrate that individuals can make a difference. Comic books aren’t simply “kid stuff” — adults have always been among their readers, and the form has attracted its share of serious artists and writers. And Super Heroes have responded to social and political issues from their beginnings.

Ten stamps on the pane of 20 are portraits of individual Marvel characters: Captain America, Elektra, Iron Man, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Sub-Mariner, The Incredible Hulk, The Thing and Wolverine.

The other 10 stamps depict individual Marvel Comic book covers. Information about the artwork shown on each stamp appears on the back on the stamp pane.

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